Ring Of Honor: 10/27(Dayton) and 10/28(Chicago)

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Another big weekend for ROH in the mid-west with Dayton and Chicago hosting.

 

Here's tonight's card (Which I'll attend, and give personal report on later)

 

Tag Team War

Homicide & Samoa Joe vs. Steve Corino & Adam Pearce

 

Delirious vs. Matt Sydal

 

Claudio Castagnoli vs. Austin Aries

 

Davey Richards vs. Jay Briscoe

 

Christopher Daniels vs. Brent Albright

 

Jimmy Rave vs. Shingo

 

Four Corner Survival

Chris Hero vs. Roderick Strong vs. Mark Briscoe vs. Tank Tolland

 

Non-Title Match

Bryan Danielson vs. Sal Rinauro

 

Colt Cabana & Jimmy Jacobs vs. Irish Airborne

 

Pre-show Main Event

Pele Primeau vs. "M-Dogg" Matt Cross

 

Saturday night

 

No DQ, Must Be A Winner, Non-Title Match

Bryan Danielson vs. Samoa Joe

 

Austin Aries vs. Christopher Daniels

 

Steve Corino vs. Delirious

 

Davey Richards vs. Mark Briscoe

 

Matt Sydal vs. Jay Briscoe

 

Colt Cabana & Jimmy Jacobs vs. Jimmy Rave & Sal Rinauro

 

Roderick Strong vs. Shingo

 

Irish Airborne vs. Adam Pearce & Shane Hagadorn

[Zack Malibu 0]

I'm extremely interested in hearing how Albright/Daniels is. Albright is a guy who should do very well on indies, or should eventually be looked at by TNA. I was a big fan of his OVW work.

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Albright was an instant star with ROH after a tremendous debut against Daniels tonight. He got a very vocal "Please come back" chant. You could easily see Albright felt completely at ease and unchained inside the ROH environment and fed off it.

 

The show as a whole was very good, with Sydal/Delirious being the highlight match of the night. The show lacked a big punch but it delivered with a non-stop flow of good to great matches without slipping.

 

Crowd was smaller then usual but that has to be looked at as a case of horrible weather playing a part in addition to the lack of a major main event attraction.

 

Here were the results

 

Pre-Show main event

Matt Cross D. Pelle

 

Main Show

 

1. Bryan Danielson D. Sal Rinuaro

-Good showcase for Danielson's heel nature and was a solid but short opener. Some might protest the champion opening the match but it seems the intent was Danielson using his pull to get even more rest and prep for tomorrow night against Joe, knowing Joe would be in the main event in a physical match.

 

2. SHINGO D. Jimmy Rave

-Fairly average match but SHINGO was impressive enough and Rave continues his descent.

 

3. Irish Airborne D. Cabana and Jacobs

-Colt does an brilliant parody of Jim Duggan, I just wanted to to get that out of the way first. Colt and Jimmy are really starting to mesh well as a team and each team were big faces as IA played the hometown kids with success and scored a "upset". Jimmy was torn apart by Lacey after the match but Colt stood up for him.

 

4. Chris Daniels D. Brent Albright

-Albright was an instant star before the match had even began. It kept building throughout the match as he came off as the better of the two more often then not. He displayed a great knowlege of mat based skills but most importantly, didn't work as a Chris Benoit clone which will tremendously help him in the long run. Albright is poised for a great run in ROH.

 

5. Roderick Strong D. Chris Hero, Tank Toland and Mark Briscoe

-Probably the "worst" match of the night but it wasn't bad by any means. Hero was his usual heel machine and Toland was impressive enough but he'll be easily overshadowed by the Albright hype.

 

6. Aries D. Castagnoli

-Your basic Aries match and that's a good thing. These two work well together and Aries was rather dominant over Claudio here which goes a long way for their tag program against each other

 

7. Davey Richards D. Jay Briscoe

-Richards continues to impress each and every time I see him. Richards really learned from KENTA and it shows here.

 

8. Delirious D. Matt Sydal

-MOTN. These two know each other like a married couple which makes sense considering how often these two work each other. Sydal shocked me in being a very good heel against the mega over Delirious. A great blend of comedy to start the match into a fast paced near-fall contest at the end.

 

9. Homicide and Joe D. Corino and Pearce

-As far as brawls go, it was rather tame to be honest. It included the required bumps and spots but lacked the energy that usually comes with these brawls. Finish saw Joe pining Pearce for the win (after Homicide put Corino through a table). Joe, then chases Hagadorn out of the building which led to a 5 on 1 attack from Corino, Pearce, Briscoes and Cornette which concluded with Homicide's head being wrapped in a plastic bag as the others fought off all assistance.

 

Good show with a fantastic match in Sydal/Delirious and a big debut from Albright.

[Garth 0]

Sounds like a solid show, I expect tonight to be even better.

Delirious vs Corino interests me, wonder how that one will pan out.

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Chicago results

 

1) Adam Pearce & Shane Hagadorn over IA

 

2) Shingo over Roderick Strong

 

3) Colt Cabana & Jimmy Jacobs over Rave & Rinauro

 

*Colt dumped Lacey and calls her a "bitch", Jimmy asks for a Hug from Lacey and she refuses. Jimmy sees her true colors and walks out with Colt, just to turn on him*

 

4) Steve Corino over Delirious with help from Pearce & Hagadorn. Cornette threatened Todd Sinclair's job as lead official afterwards if he reversed the decision.

 

5) Christopher Daniels over Austin Aries

 

6) Brent Albright over Trik Davis

 

7) Matt Sydal over Jay Briscoe

 

8) Davey Andrews over Mark Briscoe

 

9) Samoa Joe over Bryan Danielson via chokeout with Sinclair's belt (match went 20-25 minutes)

 

Announced for the 12/8 and 12/9 doubleshot is Joe-Danielson in a Steel Cage, Aries/Strong-Daniels/Sydal, & Homicide-Pearce

[Garth 0]

I like where they're going with the Joe/Danielson series. They could have done the obvious and based it round pure wrestling. I like that they have done the opposite and made it a hate filled exchange.

 

We don't yet know if the title will be put on the line yet though do we? I wouldn't have thought that the match would occur without it being for the championship.